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Show Boat is a 1951 American musical romantic drama film, based on the 1927 stage musical of the same name by Jerome Kern (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (script and lyrics), and the 1926 novel by Edna Ferber.
Show Boat. Jump to Edit. Summaries. The daughter of a riverboat captain falls in love with a charming gambler, but their fairy tale romance is threatened after his luck turns sour. The "Cotton Blossom," owned by the Hawks family, is the show boat everyone goes to for great musical entertainment down south.
Show Boat Stage Synopsis. Stills from the 1927 Original Broadway Production. ACT ONE. On a levee on the Mississippi River in the late 1880s, workers load cotton bales while townspeople crowd around a showboat (“ Cotton Blossom ”).
Show Boat (1936) - Turner Classic Movies. Overview. Synopsis. Credits. Photos & Videos. Film Details. Articles & Reviews. Quotes. Trivia. Notes. Brief Synopsis. Riverboat entertainers find love, laughs and hardships as they sail along "Old Man River." Cast & Crew. Read More. James Whale. Director. Irene Dunne. Magnolia. Charles Winninger.
A rich portrait of changing American entertainment traditions and race relations, Show Boat spans five decades and three generations as it follows the fortunes of the stagestruck Magnolia (Irene Dunne), an aspiring actor whose journey takes her from her family’s humble floating playhouse in the 1880s South to the bright footlights of the 1930s N...
Show Boat. Premier: December 27, 1927. Theater: Ziegfeld Theater. Music by: Jerome Kern. Lyrics by: Oscar Hammerstein II. Book by: Oscar Hammerstein II, based on SHOW BOAT by Edna Ferber....
Unlike the dazzling revues for which Ziegfeld was known, Show Boat paved an uncharted path with a bold and ambitious vision; here was a new kind of musical operetta comedy with three-dimensional characters dealing with serious, realistic themes woven into a substantial plot.
